Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

You can't be what you can't see.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.